Overconfident residents

June 9, 2008

The Happy Hospitalist: “Residents were more confident . . . but significantly less accurate than the attending physicians. In another study, researchers found that residents often stayed wedded to an incorrect diagnosis even when a diagnostic decision support system suggested the correct diagnosis.”



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